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[SpaINdia] Cooper ACTioning Urban Condensers Updating Heritage Areas

Franca Alexandra Sonntag

Arts, design, architecture & planning

[SpaINdia] Cooper ACTioning Urban Condensers Updating Heritage Areas

By Franca Alexandra Sonntag, postdoc and lecturer in architecture, and Ricardo Montoro Coso

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Press · 2022

In 2019 two Siamese workshops were organized by Aula Coopera [Spain/in/India], under the same research topic, Urban Condensers. Updating heritage areas, the workshops took place in two different cities: Madrid and Ahmedabad; two countries in two continents. With the participation of 14 professors, eight conferences, previous trips visiting paradigmatic architectures, walking through the intervention sites in contact with their inhabitants; 50 students of various levels and seven nationalities produced different proposals for the re-activation of public space in both cities among 17 working groups. This book describes the workshops, including the immense experiences of participants living in situ together.

From Summer 2023 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News). Cover image via Google Books.